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and the president has said it is not about getting rid of assad. >> they fear what might come after assad. >> he gets that, right? >> yeah, i think he gets that. but he also understands that once it happens all bets are off. he made that point very clear. >> but he also -- the people who short him all fear what will happen if if falls, they are worried about being slaughtered. >> who gets the chemical weapons if he is gone. if your primary concern is controlling the chemical wells, it's better for assad to win. he seems to have some kind of control over them. and that's why the russian idea of sequestering these things and destroying them. >> and so do the french. >> exactly. >> that's why that is an appealing thing. and i understand -- >> what's appealing? >> the idea of separating the chemical weapons out and dealing with it as a question that has to be resolved and keeping it independent of the issue of the civil war. >> we need to be really careful. it would be fabulous and a game changer but so many people have said, you know, it's such a grain of salt you have to take assad with whe
and the president has said it is not about getting rid of assad. >> they fear what might come after assad. >> he gets that, right? >> yeah, i think he gets that. but he also understands that once it happens all bets are off. he made that point very clear. >> but he also -- the people who short him all fear what will happen if if falls, they are worried about being slaughtered. >> who gets the chemical weapons if he is gone. if your primary concern is controlling...
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feels about backing assad. i think what you saw in this press conference, it was really interesting, especially in the beginning, they're wanting to focus and highlight areas of cooperation but the situation is so bad at this point that the best that could come out of this is an agreement after four hours of talks to talk some more. so that happened. i mean, that goal is out there. they now have this working group to try to work on the relationship. but to hear lavrov not accuse others or blame others for assad, not try to deflect, not try to deny it and that's what we've been hearing from russia, you know, denials that the assad regime was behind this, what he did was call for that investigation. that's kind of his way of hiding today so not being so aggressive as to blame anybody else but to use that full investigation as the kind of deflection point. not great news but it's a softer tone. he did the same thing on the hacking. we don't have any evidence. we haven't seen anything. he was able to use that and h
feels about backing assad. i think what you saw in this press conference, it was really interesting, especially in the beginning, they're wanting to focus and highlight areas of cooperation but the situation is so bad at this point that the best that could come out of this is an agreement after four hours of talks to talk some more. so that happened. i mean, that goal is out there. they now have this working group to try to work on the relationship. but to hear lavrov not accuse others or blame...
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assad. he's met with him several times over the years. here is senator kerry in a meeting in damascus in 2009. there was no talk of meetings or negotiations on the hill today. kerry said it's time to act in a forceful yet limited operation. he was asked this if american troops would be put on the ground as part of the resolution. >> i'm absolutely confident, mr. chairman, that it is easy, not that complicateed to work out language that will satisfy the congress and the american people that there is no door open here through which someone can march in ways that the congress doesn't want it to while still protecting the national security interest of the country. i'm confident that can be worked out. the bottom line is the president has no intention and will not and we do not want to put american troops on the ground to fight this -- or be involved in the fighting of this civil war period. >> the death toll roels in syria today. 66 people died in violence today including six children. chief con
assad. he's met with him several times over the years. here is senator kerry in a meeting in damascus in 2009. there was no talk of meetings or negotiations on the hill today. kerry said it's time to act in a forceful yet limited operation. he was asked this if american troops would be put on the ground as part of the resolution. >> i'm absolutely confident, mr. chairman, that it is easy, not that complicateed to work out language that will satisfy the congress and the american people...
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assad doesn't have a lot of capability. he has capability relative to children. he has capability relative to a -- an opposition that is still getting itself organized. and are not professional trained fighters. he doesn't have a credible means to threaten the united states. his allies, iran, and hezbollah could potentially engage in asymmetrical strikes against us. but the kind of threats they could pose against us are typical of the kind of threats we are dealing with around the world which is embassies that are being threatened, you know, u.s. personnel in the region. those are threats that we deal with on an ongoing basis. they are always of concern, obviously we saw the situation in yemen just a few weeks ago where we wanted to respond by getting some of our folks out of there. but the notion that mr. assad could significantly threaten the united states is just not the case. >> great interview with president obama. i have been writing down notes of things to talk about. so president obama, according to this interview, was talking to putin about this idea tha
assad doesn't have a lot of capability. he has capability relative to children. he has capability relative to a -- an opposition that is still getting itself organized. and are not professional trained fighters. he doesn't have a credible means to threaten the united states. his allies, iran, and hezbollah could potentially engage in asymmetrical strikes against us. but the kind of threats they could pose against us are typical of the kind of threats we are dealing with around the world which...
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z >> but our stated goal is to remove assad. why wouldn't we use this opportunity to move toward that goal? >> well, that is one option. if those options would range from an invasion or a lot of military options on the table, what the president has said what this authorization is about is a limited authorization for a limited exercise. the goal of removing assad from office, as the president has stated, is still the policy of this administration. >> general dempsey, how confident are you that you can calibrate, tailor, fine tune military action that doesn't have spillover effects? so we keep it to the limited stated goal of, i guess, degrading and deteriorating? >> the task was to do just that, to deter and degrade. and to be limited and focussed in scope and duration. that's the task i've been given. >> how can you calibrate that? >> well, we can calibrate it on our side. there is always the risk of escalation on the other, but they have significantly limited capabilities to do so. and most of the intelligence informs us -- we
z >> but our stated goal is to remove assad. why wouldn't we use this opportunity to move toward that goal? >> well, that is one option. if those options would range from an invasion or a lot of military options on the table, what the president has said what this authorization is about is a limited authorization for a limited exercise. the goal of removing assad from office, as the president has stated, is still the policy of this administration. >> general dempsey, how...
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is there anything worse than assad? >> you know, when you're dealing with absolutes and evil it's hard to make comparisons, but an ascendency in damascus would have horrific repercussions throughout the region, in iraq, lebanon, in jordan, possibly in turkey. what the consequences might be for israel, i don't know but probably not good. so assad is bad. >> and john king, you talk about the public opinion a bit. does it seem likely you think the president -- at least, i mean, we've heard from dana on the senate side it sounds like he'll get approval. what about the house? >> they don't have house yet but momentum but the private briefings where conservatives come back with a couple questions. remember, you've got a lot more anti-war democrats in the house. and now the democratic leader nancy pelosi is trying to say this is genocide, this is not iraq. that's important. they need to hear about the very questions we're talking about. why are we going to do this? is it going to make a difference or will it be a waste? are we
is there anything worse than assad? >> you know, when you're dealing with absolutes and evil it's hard to make comparisons, but an ascendency in damascus would have horrific repercussions throughout the region, in iraq, lebanon, in jordan, possibly in turkey. what the consequences might be for israel, i don't know but probably not good. so assad is bad. >> and john king, you talk about the public opinion a bit. does it seem likely you think the president -- at least, i mean, we've...
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bashar al assad. but for democratic congresswoman who recently met with assad in damascus, there's no proof. listen to what she told wolf blitzer. >> if president assad is found to be responsible after an independent investigation for these horrific chemical weapons attacks, i'll be the tirs one to e denounce him, to call him a war criminal and call for his prosecution into criminal court. make sure those consequences are there. but the key is now with president trump's reckless military strikes last night, it flew directly in the face of the action that the u.n. was working on at that time to launch an independent investigation. to find out what the facts are, who was involved and who was responsible. so i'm skeptical because we have to take at a premium the cost of these wars not only on the syrian people and the people in the middle east, but the cost of these wars here in the united states. >> now you have democrats who are calling on the congresswoman to leave office because of what she said. how
bashar al assad. but for democratic congresswoman who recently met with assad in damascus, there's no proof. listen to what she told wolf blitzer. >> if president assad is found to be responsible after an independent investigation for these horrific chemical weapons attacks, i'll be the tirs one to e denounce him, to call him a war criminal and call for his prosecution into criminal court. make sure those consequences are there. but the key is now with president trump's reckless military...
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assad, he has a different attitude about the assad regime. but what i've also said to him directly, we both have an interest in preventing chaos, we both have an interest in preventing terrorism. as long as mr. assad is in power, there is going to be some sort of conflict there. >> joining me now, senator bob casey, a democrat from pennsylvania and ron johnson, a republican. let me get your reaction to that. both countries don't -- are worried about the spread of terrorism, they are both worried about chemical weapons. is that why -- we'll start with you, senator casey, why you believe that russia came to the table? >> well, i think that's part of the equation here, candy. but i think far too much time has been spent on this op-ed by president putin. we shouldn't spend any more time on it. what we should focus on is making sure we do everything possible to make this framework agreement viable and to make it work. i have a lot of doubts about it. i have real concerns about the ability of either side to effectuate this. the assad regime has a d
assad, he has a different attitude about the assad regime. but what i've also said to him directly, we both have an interest in preventing chaos, we both have an interest in preventing terrorism. as long as mr. assad is in power, there is going to be some sort of conflict there. >> joining me now, senator bob casey, a democrat from pennsylvania and ron johnson, a republican. let me get your reaction to that. both countries don't -- are worried about the spread of terrorism, they are both...
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assad has to change that kill rate. he has to make his side kill more from the other with fewer losses. he has to come back to chemical weapons. we've only seen the beginning of this. >> chris? >> i agree with mark. but let's make it simple. if assad can use chemical weapons he will win this war. he will win it if it means depopulating large parts of his country by terrorizing people with chemical weapons. very much the way -- you remember when saddam used chemical weapons in 1988 and three years later he didn't even have to use them and he drove hundreds of thousands of kurds out of kurdis tan and nobody stood in his way. the real question for the state craft of this, do you want to allow bashar al assad to use weapons of mass destruction to win this war? >> we obviously don't. >> from the point of view of state craft you absolutely do not. >> even better with state craft -- >> we have a commitment from russia and now possibly the u.n. security council to take care of those weapons. >> oh, andrew, that's not serious. t
assad has to change that kill rate. he has to make his side kill more from the other with fewer losses. he has to come back to chemical weapons. we've only seen the beginning of this. >> chris? >> i agree with mark. but let's make it simple. if assad can use chemical weapons he will win this war. he will win it if it means depopulating large parts of his country by terrorizing people with chemical weapons. very much the way -- you remember when saddam used chemical weapons in 1988...
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to the assad family. >> reporter: bashar al-assad was different. growing up he was a polite boy who never lorded his status over his friends. >> the family growing up live in a very sort of typical, modest three-story home in damascus, residential building where they lived on one floor of that building. for most of his childhood, he still lives on one floor of that very same building to this day. >> reporter: assad studied eyes in london. in london he met a glamorous investment banker who would later become his wife. in 1994 assad was suddenly called back to syria after his older brother was killed in a car accident. he was now next in line to rule, and took over in 2000 after his father died. but the hopes of the damascus spring didn't last long. >> many from the so-called olgar in leadership positions came to him and said, listen, son, this isn't how we do things here. this will undermine our legit ma see and the position that we've worked very hard to get and maintain over the decades and so, what ensued about six, eight months later is what man
to the assad family. >> reporter: bashar al-assad was different. growing up he was a polite boy who never lorded his status over his friends. >> the family growing up live in a very sort of typical, modest three-story home in damascus, residential building where they lived on one floor of that building. for most of his childhood, he still lives on one floor of that very same building to this day. >> reporter: assad studied eyes in london. in london he met a glamorous...
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i don't believe, however, that you can trust putin and assad. i don't trust those guys as far as i can throw them. we've seen putin try to poke at the president before, even with snowden, and i don't think there is any affinity. you have to be skeptical if he is serious, and then the practical matter of how do you flood syria with, you know, weapons inspectors. they have something like 70 different sites where they have these. in the middle of a civil war. how does this happen in the middle of a civil war? it is really hard to see as a practical matter how it can be done. however, i think the president is recognizing some political realities here. he may be about to lose a vote that he doesn't want to lose. and they're pulling back a little bit at least to get some time to see if they can make a better case. >> john, i know you want to get in. >> well, at least the challenge for the president, they thought about the president addressing the skepticism. and it is hard to get the president, through his reluctance, his own reservations about doing
i don't believe, however, that you can trust putin and assad. i don't trust those guys as far as i can throw them. we've seen putin try to poke at the president before, even with snowden, and i don't think there is any affinity. you have to be skeptical if he is serious, and then the practical matter of how do you flood syria with, you know, weapons inspectors. they have something like 70 different sites where they have these. in the middle of a civil war. how does this happen in the middle of...
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that some of assad's opponents are extremists. but al qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death. the majority of the syrian people and the syrian opposition we work with just want to live in peace with dignity and freedom. and the day after any military action we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and extremism. >> christiane amanpour wanted david kay. he's back. >> frankly the president is right. americans are smart. they're empathetic. they understand that we cannot allow the highest crimes under humanitarian law to be violated with impunity. i don't want to live in a world where some dictator because we didn't hold the line is able with impunity to use chemical weapons. >> but what they're saying, why does america have to be the one doing it? >> america is not going there to do it. america has to do it i'll tell you now why it is the migh
that some of assad's opponents are extremists. but al qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death. the majority of the syrian people and the syrian opposition we work with just want to live in peace with dignity and freedom. and the day after any military action we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and...
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assad step down. that's gone according to critics. >> vladimir putin is achieving two main objectives here. his main objectives were he wants to keep assad in power. well this ratifies assad's status because we have to deal with him. he has to let inspectors in. the second thing is these chemical weapons would not possibly fall in the hands of militants who might use them in chechnya and russia. this gets the chemical weapons either out of syria or destroyed. it's a win/win for putin. i'll be back at 10:00 with ac 360. we're expecting president obama any second now. you see the podium there. the east room at the white house. i want to hand it over to wolf blitzer as we awade the president's speech. wolf? >>> we're following breaking news. new details on what president obama will say in the white house east room tonight. i'm told he'll explain why the regime of bashar al-assad must be held accountable. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in washing
assad step down. that's gone according to critics. >> vladimir putin is achieving two main objectives here. his main objectives were he wants to keep assad in power. well this ratifies assad's status because we have to deal with him. he has to let inspectors in. the second thing is these chemical weapons would not possibly fall in the hands of militants who might use them in chechnya and russia. this gets the chemical weapons either out of syria or destroyed. it's a win/win for putin....
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so the russians have been covering for assad and if it were not for the russians, assad would not still be in power and if it were not for the russians assad would not have the capability and much less the gall to conduct the sort of attack we saw a couple of days ago. >> is it still u.s. policy that bashar assad must go because as you know last week secretary of state rex tillerson said it's up to the syrian people to decide what happens to assad. >> again, i would leave it to the white house to tell you what their policy. i am convinced and i know the president was deeply impacted by the images and news he got from there. no matter how you may feel about the president and i know there are people out there that don't support the president, but if you watched yesterday as he was standing next to the king, that was real. that was not politician up there talking. that was a real person who had seen and heard and been briefed on this horrifying attack a and it clearly effected him. tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to bashar el a
so the russians have been covering for assad and if it were not for the russians, assad would not still be in power and if it were not for the russians assad would not have the capability and much less the gall to conduct the sort of attack we saw a couple of days ago. >> is it still u.s. policy that bashar assad must go because as you know last week secretary of state rex tillerson said it's up to the syrian people to decide what happens to assad. >> again, i would leave it to the...
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assad has to change that kill rate. he has to make his side kill more from the other with fewer losses. he has to come back to chemical weapons. we've only seen the beginning of this. >> chris? >> i agree with mark. but let's make it simple. if assad can use chemical weapons he will win this war. he will win it if it means depopulating large parts of his country by terrorizing people with chemical weapons. very much the way -- you remember when saddam used chemical weapons in 1988 and three years later he didn't even have to use them and he drove hundreds of thousands of kurds out of kurdis tan and nobody stood in his way. the real question for the state craft of this, do you want to allow bashar al assad to use weapons of mass destruction to win this war? >> we obviously don't. >> from the point of view of state craft you absolutely do not. >> even better with state craft -- >> we have a commitment from russia and now possibly the u.n. security council to take care of those weapons. >> oh, andrew, that's not serious. t
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two weeks ago they signaled they were okay with assad in power. last week he attacks assad. this week his advisers give conflicting signals on whether they want regime change or not. we cannot have this strategic confusion coming out of the white house. >> do you want, before there's any additional military action against bashar al assad's regime, any of his military targets, for example, do you want congress, both the house and the senate, to pass legislation authorizing the use of military force? >> absolutely. congress has only authorized two instances for the president to use military force. to go after terrorists and to deal with the threat of iraq. attacking syria was not authorized by congress. it is unconstitutional. but more importantly, the president needs to explain to the american people why are we involved in a raging civil war halfway around the world? how long will we be there? what are our goals and who are we supporting? >> did the president do the right thing ordering the launching of those tomahawk cruise missiles? >> i don't know because i don't know what
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goal is to reverse bashar al-assad's advances on the battlefield. he said it's something the president assured him in his policy inside the white house and he said it's critical for him to have that in there. the top republican was positive about the fact they would get consensus. they will see that committee to reconvene probably first in closed session and afterwards open for the cameras. we'll see them begin to debate and ultimately vote on some of these issues. we'll see regular order here. it already was changed put a time limit on and make sure there were no boots on the ground. we'll see the process move today. >> the clearly sensitive issues involved. dana bash watches what's going on. gloria, i would be stunned first-degree t if the senate foreign relations committee passed this issue. it's much more problematic there. tell our viewers why. >> it's more difficult. it's less predictable. even though you've had the house speaker, john boehner come out and his number two, eric cantor come out and support the president. they don't carry a lot o
goal is to reverse bashar al-assad's advances on the battlefield. he said it's something the president assured him in his policy inside the white house and he said it's critical for him to have that in there. the top republican was positive about the fact they would get consensus. they will see that committee to reconvene probably first in closed session and afterwards open for the cameras. we'll see them begin to debate and ultimately vote on some of these issues. we'll see regular order here....
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>> well, fredericka, the problem is that we can't tie this to bashar al assad. we don't know if rogue officers fired this. we don't know exactly what happened. if you see a lot of people on, you know, up on the air saying who did this, you know, i think this unit did. that's not enough. it is not a smoking gun and i think everybody would like to see that smoking gun before we launch an attack. >> and your sources are telling you something very interesting. your syrian sources are telling you about the potential consequences if, indeed there were a military strike. government sources? citizens? what are they saying? >> these are people in the regime. they have called me up. they come across the border and call me on skype and said on monday bashar al assad made a statement inside the regime that if there's an attack on syria he will respond by hitting israel. i asked them would that be with chemical weapons? they said, no. conventional and expect it to escalate from there. >> and is there a feeling that evidence, the intelligence community, would be able to colle
>> well, fredericka, the problem is that we can't tie this to bashar al assad. we don't know if rogue officers fired this. we don't know exactly what happened. if you see a lot of people on, you know, up on the air saying who did this, you know, i think this unit did. that's not enough. it is not a smoking gun and i think everybody would like to see that smoking gun before we launch an attack. >> and your sources are telling you something very interesting. your syrian sources are...
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assad's behavior. keep in mind also from a practical perspective the moderate opposition in syria is one that if we're ever going to have to have a political transition, we need. and the russian policy is driving those folks underground or creating a situation in which they are deka pas at a timed and it's only strengthening isil. and that's not good for anybody. in terms of our support of opposition groups inside of syria, i made very clear early on that the united states couldn't impose a military solution on syria either. but that it was in our interests to make sure that we were engaged with moderate opposition inside of syria because eventually syria will fall. the assad regime will fall. and had to have somebody we were working with that can help pick up the pieces and stitch together a cohesive coherent country. so we will continue to support them. the training and equip program was a specific initiative by the defense department to see if we could get some of that moderate opposition to focus a
assad's behavior. keep in mind also from a practical perspective the moderate opposition in syria is one that if we're ever going to have to have a political transition, we need. and the russian policy is driving those folks underground or creating a situation in which they are deka pas at a timed and it's only strengthening isil. and that's not good for anybody. in terms of our support of opposition groups inside of syria, i made very clear early on that the united states couldn't impose a...
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and bashar al assad's had other difficulties changing the old ways of his father. >> hafez al assad had a closed system. couldn't travel or communicate well. international news is limited. when bashar came in to power, he lifted the restrictions on travel, allowed them to read newspapers and the internet. how do you control the system? how do you basically perpetuate rule? >> reporter: bashar al assad was apparently warned that he couldn't do that. analysts say when he brought in the internet, it was against the advice of the security staff, the old cronies of his father saying it would be dangerous and trouble controlling it. they were right. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> thank you, brian. >>> it's graphic and hard to stomach. 13 different videos allegedly showing the aftermath of a chemical weapons attack by the syrian government but what they don't show is evidence of who's responsible for the attack. and rare interrue with u.s. media, syrian president bashar al assad denied he >>> he did, however, say if in fact we do have them and i'm not going to say yes or no, there was central
and bashar al assad's had other difficulties changing the old ways of his father. >> hafez al assad had a closed system. couldn't travel or communicate well. international news is limited. when bashar came in to power, he lifted the restrictions on travel, allowed them to read newspapers and the internet. how do you control the system? how do you basically perpetuate rule? >> reporter: bashar al assad was apparently warned that he couldn't do that. analysts say when he brought in...
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>> christiane, you've interviewed bashar al assad. i watched the interview earlier today with charlie rose. say what you will about him, he seemed to know the talking points he wanted to deliver to the american public. this was an american television network. he was trying to score some points when he spoke of transparency. go ahead, you got the evidence. release the evidence. don't keep it classified. he seemed to be pretty sophisticated at least from that pr perspective, christiane. >> i think, yes, from a pr perspective, but you know, he's been saying the same thing for the last two and a half years that we haven't done anything. it's not me. i haven't given any orders. whether it's chemical weapons or whatever it might be, this is just a fight by my forces against terrorism. has been his mantra for the last 2 1/2 years. i'm not surprised at all by what he says in any kind of interview at this particular time because it is something that is designed purely for current situation. and it's so interesting that the syrian officials who
>> christiane, you've interviewed bashar al assad. i watched the interview earlier today with charlie rose. say what you will about him, he seemed to know the talking points he wanted to deliver to the american public. this was an american television network. he was trying to score some points when he spoke of transparency. go ahead, you got the evidence. release the evidence. don't keep it classified. he seemed to be pretty sophisticated at least from that pr perspective, christiane....
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assad fights back. he doesn't just take it. he retaliates against us or lets iran retaliate against israel all because we have come into this civil war. so they shoot back. then what do we do once americans are engaged now in escalated specific strike not by our cosinop postured for the possibility of retaliation. i can assure that our regional partners are as well. >> let me just ask that question a little -- with more clarification for you. i know you're in the military and you're to the point. that's great. we're glad you're in charge. can you see that escalating with u.s. military involvement in the region. have you made a contingency plan with syrians reaction to us? have you made contingency plans for us being in an escalated military operation in the region? >> in the spirit of your compliment of my conciseness, yes. >> do you see escalation a possibility? u.s. military escalation in the region as a possibility? >> i can never drive the risk of escalation to zero. i think that the limited purpose and partnerships we have
assad fights back. he doesn't just take it. he retaliates against us or lets iran retaliate against israel all because we have come into this civil war. so they shoot back. then what do we do once americans are engaged now in escalated specific strike not by our cosinop postured for the possibility of retaliation. i can assure that our regional partners are as well. >> let me just ask that question a little -- with more clarification for you. i know you're in the military and you're to...
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is isis and they want to get rid of assad. and it would be strange that it would be the united states and isis on the same side trying to get rid of al assad. how do they not help isis? >> it is one of the issues, erin, that tells the world what a complex part of the world the middle east is. and i know it is difficult to understand that we would have the same goal as isis and at the same time in a fierce fight with them. but the fact is, they want to take over leadership of that country. they've made it very clear they want what they call a caliphate, which is a state where law is enforced in iraq and lebanon and israel. they think that is their direction that they are receiving from their so-called folks on high. so it is not surprising that they would want to see bashar assad gone, but for a different reason than what we want to see him removed for. but certainly we do have a common goal there and it is very ironic. >> so according to a georgia paper, you recently said the fight against isis will probably require american s
is isis and they want to get rid of assad. and it would be strange that it would be the united states and isis on the same side trying to get rid of al assad. how do they not help isis? >> it is one of the issues, erin, that tells the world what a complex part of the world the middle east is. and i know it is difficult to understand that we would have the same goal as isis and at the same time in a fierce fight with them. but the fact is, they want to take over leadership of that country....
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what message are you sending to assad about this? do -- do you feel -- why do you feel -- what message are you sending and why do you feel he chose to do this not until the trump administration took office? did he read the signals from administration officials that isis was no longer the top priority? well, isis might be the priority, regime change was not. do you feel that that's the signal he got and are you sending him a new signal? and for you general votel, although you don't talk about future military operations, how prepared are you and central command to take on additional military targeting? do you feel you know even if you can't say where these chemical weapons are at this point? >> barbara, we believe that assad has used chemical weapons several times over the last several years, violated the international law that ploos ha prohibited their use since 1925. syria is a signatory to that international convention. for them to have done this several times recently over the last several years is what i mean by recently. you've g
what message are you sending to assad about this? do -- do you feel -- why do you feel -- what message are you sending and why do you feel he chose to do this not until the trump administration took office? did he read the signals from administration officials that isis was no longer the top priority? well, isis might be the priority, regime change was not. do you feel that that's the signal he got and are you sending him a new signal? and for you general votel, although you don't talk about...
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to punish assad and really deter people. if you let assad use weapons of mass destruction, i mean, the effect on the ground, it's all this horrible, obviously, what does that say about the future? do we want to be the country that sits, having the ability to do quite a bit, that does nothing, i don't think it's a good excuse. the american public is weary -- not that weary of war, he can win this vote, he can have the support. >> we have to take a quick break. everyone else stick around. i want to talk u.s. military strategy coming next. assad's forces are making moves as well. we'll tell you about that. new developments when we continue. [ male announcer ] ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much you think. except it's 2% every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch. over time it really adds up. then go to e-trade and find out how much our advice costs. spoiler alert: it's low. really? yes, really. e-trade offers inves
to punish assad and really deter people. if you let assad use weapons of mass destruction, i mean, the effect on the ground, it's all this horrible, obviously, what does that say about the future? do we want to be the country that sits, having the ability to do quite a bit, that does nothing, i don't think it's a good excuse. the american public is weary -- not that weary of war, he can win this vote, he can have the support. >> we have to take a quick break. everyone else stick around. i...
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that some of assad's opponents are extremists. but al qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death. the majority of the syrian people and the syrian opposition we work with just want to live in peace with dignity and freedom. and the day after any military action we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and extremism. >> christiane amanpour wanted david kay. he's back. >> well, frankly, the president is right. americans are smart. they're empathetic. they understand that we cannot allow the highest crimes under humanitarian law to be violated with impunity. i don't want to live in a world where some dictator because we didn't hold the line is able with impunity to use chemical weapons. >> but what they're saying, why does america have to be the one doing it? >> america is not going there to do it. america has to do it. i'll tell you now why. becau
that some of assad's opponents are extremists. but al qaeda will only draw strength in a more chaotic syria if people there see the world doing nothing to prevent innocent civilians from being gassed to death. the majority of the syrian people and the syrian opposition we work with just want to live in peace with dignity and freedom. and the day after any military action we would redouble our efforts to achieve a political solution that strengthens those who reject the forces of tyranny and...
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. >> reporter: this analyst met with assad and worked with assad's wife. he says assad is capable of looking you in the eye and outright lying, saying he's also a manipulator, that this remark from assad was a calculation to touch a sensitive nerve in the u.s. >> that reminds me about what kerry said about the big lie but colin powell said in front of the world lies about the wmd before going to war. when you say this is our evidence, actually he gave false evidence. in this case, kerry didn't even present any evidence. >> reporter: kerry rebutted that directly. >> we know by tracing it physically where the rockets came from and where they landed, and it is no accident that they all came from regime controlled territory. >> reporter: assad, who once told cnn he doesn't threaten, now seems to be threatening retaliation for a u.s. strike. >> may take different forms, direct and indirect. direct when people want to retaliate or governments, indirect when you are going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that would influence the
. >> reporter: this analyst met with assad and worked with assad's wife. he says assad is capable of looking you in the eye and outright lying, saying he's also a manipulator, that this remark from assad was a calculation to touch a sensitive nerve in the u.s. >> that reminds me about what kerry said about the big lie but colin powell said in front of the world lies about the wmd before going to war. when you say this is our evidence, actually he gave false evidence. in this case,...
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girl he says was killed by assad's regime. a short time ago i spoke about these e-mails with photo journalist paul con row who was injured and a senior fellow at hoover institution. the level of nonchallenge lance in these e-mails from this dictator assad, i guess i shouldn't be stunned by it, but i am. you talk about fiddling while rome is burning. >> you're exactly right. there's nothing really unusual about this, anderson. a great philospher went to watch the trial and she wrote an incredible book, called aikman, the ben 1/2 vatly of evil. she talked about all of the great crimes that he committed. they are trading these e-mails, she's worried about shopping, he's downloading his music and meanwhile syria is on fire and meanwhile the great crimes, even in the city of homs, which is the city of his wife, are being killed and massacred. so there you have it. >> and e-mails from mrs. assad who, in years past, was kind of viewed as this, you know, cosmopolitan intellectual lady, welcomed in the west and written about in western
girl he says was killed by assad's regime. a short time ago i spoke about these e-mails with photo journalist paul con row who was injured and a senior fellow at hoover institution. the level of nonchallenge lance in these e-mails from this dictator assad, i guess i shouldn't be stunned by it, but i am. you talk about fiddling while rome is burning. >> you're exactly right. there's nothing really unusual about this, anderson. a great philospher went to watch the trial and she wrote an...
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assad can't wipe out the opposition. and the opposition can't overthrow assad. >> there will be a long war of attrition that will be regional consequences, or there's going to be some sort of other factor that becomes a game changer. but that is also not going to be able to prevent the inevitable scenario of a full-blown war in syria. even if assad were somehow taken out, stepped down tomorrow, that would still not avoid that scenario. i think the debate needs to be about how to mitigate the spillover effect because it is going to drag every single country down into it. >> we haven't talked about iraq. i mean, you've got the kurds up here. they are furious with maliki in baghdad. they are talking about federating with the kurds here. turkey's in on these negotiations. to me, it looks like we're almost, you know, rewriting the ottoman borders and that we're going back and trying to fix the breakup of the ottoman empire. >> that's still playing out. the ottoman empire is still playing out? >> imperialism, whatever you want
assad can't wipe out the opposition. and the opposition can't overthrow assad. >> there will be a long war of attrition that will be regional consequences, or there's going to be some sort of other factor that becomes a game changer. but that is also not going to be able to prevent the inevitable scenario of a full-blown war in syria. even if assad were somehow taken out, stepped down tomorrow, that would still not avoid that scenario. i think the debate needs to be about how to mitigate...
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the turks began their opposition towards the assad government in syria saying we don't want assad. we are going to find a moderate opposition. they tried to stand up a moderate opposition and created the syrian free army. it didn't really go anywhere. these guys weren't great fighters and weren't able to fight. at that point the turks decide just let anyone into syria. that strategy of letting anyone in fuelled the worse kinds of people going into syria and forming and building what is now isis. so everybody now has had a kind of wakeup call. there are many, many debates about what you can do and how you can do it because isis is strong enough that air strikes alone are not going to defeat it. fighting from iraq alone probably won't defeat it. the real challenge is what do you do in syria? you do not have powerful, capable moderate forces. the only force that is battling isis in syria is, of course, the army of assad, the government of syria. the united states and turkey are both opposed to it. that is the strategic conundrum. we don't know how to get at isis in syria. iraq is easi
the turks began their opposition towards the assad government in syria saying we don't want assad. we are going to find a moderate opposition. they tried to stand up a moderate opposition and created the syrian free army. it didn't really go anywhere. these guys weren't great fighters and weren't able to fight. at that point the turks decide just let anyone into syria. that strategy of letting anyone in fuelled the worse kinds of people going into syria and forming and building what is now...
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i would say that the majority of the room is comfortable with our conclusion that assad, the assad government, was responsible for their use. obviously, this is disputed by president putin, but if you polled the leaders last night, i'm confident that you'd get a majority who said it is most likely, we are pretty confident, that the assad regime used it. where there is a division, it has to do with the united nations. you know, there are number a of countries that just as a matter of principle believe that if military action is to be taken, it needs to go through the u.n. security council. there are others, and i put myself in this camp, as somebody who is a strong supporter of the united nations, who very much appreciates the courage of the investigators who have gone in and looks forward to seeing the u.n. report. because i think we should try to get more information, not less, in this situation. it is my view and a view that was shared by a number of people in the room that given security council paralysis on this issue, if we are serious about upholding a ban on chemical weapons use, then
i would say that the majority of the room is comfortable with our conclusion that assad, the assad government, was responsible for their use. obviously, this is disputed by president putin, but if you polled the leaders last night, i'm confident that you'd get a majority who said it is most likely, we are pretty confident, that the assad regime used it. where there is a division, it has to do with the united nations. you know, there are number a of countries that just as a matter of principle...
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a month later, what was asma assad focused on them? fondue. she sent a link to a set and said, please, can we get one? same day, she was talking about fondue, this is what was happening in homs, her home town. street to street gun battles, civilians versus the military and plain clothed thugs who worked for the regime. on february 5th, assad's e-mail, e-mailing the lyrics to a blake shelton song. the person who have been lately ain't who i want to be, but your stay right here beside me, watch as the storm goes through, and i need you. while he was sending the lyrics to his wife, in homs, a man you see here held the body of a dead child, a girl he said was killed by assad's regime. can spoke with paul conroy who was wounded in the assault on homs, escaped with his life and with a senior fellow at stanford's hoover institute. the level of nonchalance in the e-mails is just -- i guess i shouldn't be stunned by it, but i am. i mean, you talk about fiddling while rome is burning. >> exactly right. there is nothing really unusual about it. many year
a month later, what was asma assad focused on them? fondue. she sent a link to a set and said, please, can we get one? same day, she was talking about fondue, this is what was happening in homs, her home town. street to street gun battles, civilians versus the military and plain clothed thugs who worked for the regime. on february 5th, assad's e-mail, e-mailing the lyrics to a blake shelton song. the person who have been lately ain't who i want to be, but your stay right here beside me, watch...
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>> he can buy time for assad to stay in power but he can't buy time for assad to use chemical weapons again, that won't happen. if it does, we'll do something about it. >> it will take months, years to actually deal with the chemical weapons supply. >> the first half of the putin piece was right there are blocks of al qaeda who are on terrorist lists fighting with the rebels. that's a danger. the rest of the piece was russian propaganda. human rights watch was hardly aligned with one side or the other, didn't have really good analysis on who could use chemical weapons, and they concluded that only the government could have used chemical weapons because of the vast amount they were used and the way they were delivered. you can't take assad or putin seriously when they said they didn't use chemical weapons. >> nor should we take the intelligence reports 100% given the problem with iraq. >> iraq is a huge problem. >> i'll come to that. tom ridge, this is from putin's piece. a strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism and undermine multi lateral efforts to restore
>> he can buy time for assad to stay in power but he can't buy time for assad to use chemical weapons again, that won't happen. if it does, we'll do something about it. >> it will take months, years to actually deal with the chemical weapons supply. >> the first half of the putin piece was right there are blocks of al qaeda who are on terrorist lists fighting with the rebels. that's a danger. the rest of the piece was russian propaganda. human rights watch was hardly aligned...
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and president obama is calling for the end to assad's presidency, but the u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that the administration is now calling for what he describes as therderly managed transition. a while ago kerry responded to russia's growing involvement in syria, and whether it is committed to stamping out isis. >> if russia's recent actions and those now ongoing reflect a genuine commitment to defeat that organization, then we are prepared to welcome those efforts, and to find a way to deconflict the operation, and thereby multpy pli the military pressure on isil, and the affiliated groups, but we must not and will not be kon fconfus the fight against isil for the support of assad. and moreover, we have made it clear that we have grave concerns that russia should strike where isil and other affiliated groups are not operating. that type of attack would question russia's protection of isil and assad's regime. >> and so what were the air strikes today, and what are the implications. let's bring in elise labot, and former general mark hertling and co
and president obama is calling for the end to assad's presidency, but the u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that the administration is now calling for what he describes as therderly managed transition. a while ago kerry responded to russia's growing involvement in syria, and whether it is committed to stamping out isis. >> if russia's recent actions and those now ongoing reflect a genuine commitment to defeat that organization, then we are prepared to welcome those efforts, and to...
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must keep up the pressure on syrian president assad. you are going to hear wolf blitzer's interview with the president in a moment. and we hear from marco rubio. did the president convince him? is he on board with this new idea? we'll hear from marco rubio. >>> and then -- >> he can turn over every single bit of his weapons in the next week. all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that. but he isn't about it do it, and it can't be done, obviously. >> he isn't about to do it and can't be done obviously, sort of walking the proposal back. it got a lot of momentum. russia, and france jumped on it. meanwhile, assad also on television today with charlie rose, defiant and warning america of retaliation if there is a strike. >> you would expect everything, not necessarily through the government. it's not only the governments are not the only player in this region. >> tell me what you mean by expect everything. >> expect every action. >> expect every action. senator rubio is standing by. we begin, though, with the pre
must keep up the pressure on syrian president assad. you are going to hear wolf blitzer's interview with the president in a moment. and we hear from marco rubio. did the president convince him? is he on board with this new idea? we'll hear from marco rubio. >>> and then -- >> he can turn over every single bit of his weapons in the next week. all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that. but he isn't about it do it, and it can't be done, obviously....
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from donald trump to bashar al assad and his russian masters. firing more than 100 missiles into the heart of syria's chemical weapons program. >> i spoke to the president this morning. he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the united states is locked and loaded. >> reporter: defense secretary james mattis in the late night pentagon briefing not shutting the door to future military action but also not saying what would lead to more air strikes. >> right now this is a one time shot and i believe itd sent a very strong message to dissuade him from doing this again. >> reporter:-shortly after these horrific videos emerged of an april 7th chemical weapons attack in a damascus suburb that the pentagon began planning for military strikes. the target list, a chemical research center in damascus and two chemical weapons in equipment storage facilities located west of homes. the pentagon said there were no reports of civilian casualties and all the military objectives for this strike were achieved. >> i believe we took the heart of
from donald trump to bashar al assad and his russian masters. firing more than 100 missiles into the heart of syria's chemical weapons program. >> i spoke to the president this morning. he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again, the united states is locked and loaded. >> reporter: defense secretary james mattis in the late night pentagon briefing not shutting the door to future military action but also not saying what would lead to more air strikes. >> right...
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this assad's behavior? >> this is a man as of two weeks ago was sitting pretty. he had what was a pro-assad president in the white house, a guy that wanted no quarrel with the regime. rex tillerson saying the syrian people will decide. what happened? as of 2014, he was meant to have released all of, or relinquished all of his stockpiles of chemical weapons. john kerry issued a statement, i remember it very well, we congratulate all parties in successfully ridding syria -- >> did not do it. >> assad has been dropping chlorine gas since that chemical deal was struck between obama and putin. now he dropped sarin, a nerve agent he's not meant to possess, killing 70 people, which is not going to strategically change the dynamics, it's not going to tact tickly change. and all the pages of the newspapers are saying, assad the butcher, nobody's talking about terrorism anymore. this is the height of stupidity and insanity. >> he did it before. actually two months ago, i remember, in february, there was a security co
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chance to take out assad's air force. i wish president obama had done that and now president trump is responsible. he's going to have to decide how we'll react. >> ambassador burns, thank you so much. we'll be right back. >> thank you. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her mobile wedding business. she travels far and wide to officiate i do's. and quickbooks automatically tracks those miles. she categorizes with a swipe and is ready for tax time. find more than $4000 in tax savings. visit quickbooks-dot-com. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happen, all while reducing america's emissions. energy lives here. at where instead of payinging a befor middlemen,em. we work directly with family farms to deliver hig
chance to take out assad's air force. i wish president obama had done that and now president trump is responsible. he's going to have to decide how we'll react. >> ambassador burns, thank you so much. we'll be right back. >> thank you. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her mobile wedding business. she travels far and wide to officiate i do's. and quickbooks automatically tracks those miles. she categorizes with a swipe and is ready for tax time. find more than $4000 in tax...
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a wounded young boy says he wants assad to die. as you watch the following videos, keep in mind the regime of bashir al-assad says they are observing a cease fire. a free syrian army they call themselves through the rocket propelled grenades. they're outgunned, outmanned. the opposition says at least 23 government soldiers were killed today and three armored personnel carriers destroyed. elsewhere in homs city a syrian tank rolls down the street a among bombed out buildings. in hama today tanks rolled in and heavy gunfire ensued. we can't independently confirm the videos. they're uploaded on youtube by activists. for months there's been concerns that violence will spill into neighboring countries. this weekend we saw that happening in tripoli, lebanon's second largest city, it pitted antiassad people against each other. at least seven people were killed in lebanon. every day in syria more syrian citizens die and flee to refugee camps. more syrian citizens are wounded, arrested, disappear. even in the hospital the injured are not sa
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want to get rid of assad but this is now the trump administration so if you want to get rid of assad, are you willing to stay the course and put military power to bear? are you willing to do more strikes? and if you are, i think that the scenarios that the other guests have outline ready entirely plausible. there's going to be pushback and backlash, not just from the russians, potentially from the syrians, from the iranian allies. remember, there are a bunch of american soldiers in the field in syria, in iraq. trump has actually doubled the number in syria. there are potential targets, not easy to get to but potential targets and, most importantly, i think the big picture for the american people is to ask, have we entered the syrian civil war? have we entered the syrian civil war on one side that is against assad and what does all of that mean? are we in it for the long haul? are we willing to commit more troops and resources? are we in some kind of alliance with jihadis in syria? that is going to shape a lot of what president trump has to deal with and the one thing i can assure you
want to get rid of assad but this is now the trump administration so if you want to get rid of assad, are you willing to stay the course and put military power to bear? are you willing to do more strikes? and if you are, i think that the scenarios that the other guests have outline ready entirely plausible. there's going to be pushback and backlash, not just from the russians, potentially from the syrians, from the iranian allies. remember, there are a bunch of american soldiers in the field in...
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president assad knows that. he had some very ample proof and examples in the strikes that you mentioned, a few of them in the last six months, how much israel knows about what is happening in syria and what israel is capable to do. he wouldn't like to open another front in addition to the u.s. campaign that is assumed would be ran against him. so i think the chances of israel being involved in the current confrontation between the united states and syria are extremely slim. as aviv mentioned, yes, people are scared but with no reason that israel would be involved. however, in such a confrontation things might slip, might get out of hand if for example hezbollah in lebanon would initiate some sort of a retaliation against israel trying to align with syria, possibly with iran, israel with force to retaliate. but i do not see president assad take the chance and getting israel involved in this kind of war. >> the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, saying this week if that were to happen, if israel were at
president assad knows that. he had some very ample proof and examples in the strikes that you mentioned, a few of them in the last six months, how much israel knows about what is happening in syria and what israel is capable to do. he wouldn't like to open another front in addition to the u.s. campaign that is assumed would be ran against him. so i think the chances of israel being involved in the current confrontation between the united states and syria are extremely slim. as aviv mentioned,...
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though some in the videos can be heard blaming the assad regime, these videos do not prove the assad regime carried out these chemical weapons attacks, those claims by president obama and others in the administration come from other information not shared with the public and not confirmed by cnn. and while the president is confident in his case to the public, he says he recognizes why some, even after viewing these images, still have questions. >> i think people are rightly going to be pretty skeptical about the system and whether it can work to protect those children that we saw on those videos. and sometimes the further we get from the horrors of that, the easier it is to rationalize not making tough choices. >> reporter: these upsetting videos are being used to convince a skeptical congress that military action is needed against assad and his regime. however horrific the images are, they do not prove or disprove that a military strike would not result in any even more horror. jake tapper, cnn, washington. >> jake, thank you very much. president obama will give a few interviews on
though some in the videos can be heard blaming the assad regime, these videos do not prove the assad regime carried out these chemical weapons attacks, those claims by president obama and others in the administration come from other information not shared with the public and not confirmed by cnn. and while the president is confident in his case to the public, he says he recognizes why some, even after viewing these images, still have questions. >> i think people are rightly going to be...
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can -- if assad -- there's the concern about a power vacuum if assad is taken out of power one way or another. what role isis then plays in the country. >> yeah. that's an ideal solution. that's the one i favor. frankly, the geometry of the battlefield has changed, anderson, after the russian intervention. the a. ener the amount of energy on our part to take on assad and isis is beyond what any president could now reasonably demand of this country. that's a great sadness. it is going to be a festering sore for a very long time. but i think, frankly, at best, we're going to have to handle this sequentially. park the assad problem. work on isis. and then go from there. >> how difficult -- the level of russian involvement in syria, it seems like it is even more complicated now than it was during the obama administration before russia got involved. having them on the ground and iran as well, it's much more three dimensional battlefield. >> exactly. again, i would have been right where senator mccain was earlier on your show three years ago, four years ago when everything was more malleabl
can -- if assad -- there's the concern about a power vacuum if assad is taken out of power one way or another. what role isis then plays in the country. >> yeah. that's an ideal solution. that's the one i favor. frankly, the geometry of the battlefield has changed, anderson, after the russian intervention. the a. ener the amount of energy on our part to take on assad and isis is beyond what any president could now reasonably demand of this country. that's a great sadness. it is going to...
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freezing the assets of asma assad and other relatives. sanctions are piling up and they hold meeting after meeting, killings in syria continue. opposition groups said at least three dozen people were killed today. we can independently confirm that. fighting was reported in at least six cities as the rest of the world stands by. this is what the people of syria are trying to survive. in homs, more reports today of heavy shelling by assad's troops. we cannot confirm the authenticity of the videos. here's a closer look at the shelling in homs, that is a house burning. here's an even closer look. it is said to be a mosque, a frequent target. especially during friday prayers. the video shows a mosque under attack. the cameraman is inside. you can see security forces running below. the free syrian army is fighting back as well. the syrian tank, army tank was hit yesterday. the opposition remains outgunned and outnumbered by assad's forces. in the meantime, we're learning more and more about president assad's wife asma. we told you what she wrot
freezing the assets of asma assad and other relatives. sanctions are piling up and they hold meeting after meeting, killings in syria continue. opposition groups said at least three dozen people were killed today. we can independently confirm that. fighting was reported in at least six cities as the rest of the world stands by. this is what the people of syria are trying to survive. in homs, more reports today of heavy shelling by assad's troops. we cannot confirm the authenticity of the...
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a wounded young boy says he wants assad to die. as you watch the following videos, keep in mind the regime of assad says they are observing a ceasefire. the free syrian army, as they call themselves, shoot a rocket propelled grenade. they're outgunned, outmanned. the opposition says at least 23 government soldiers were killed today in rastan and three armored personnel carriers destroyed. elsewhere in homs, a syrian tank rolls down the street. among bombed out buildings and open fire. and at hama today, tanks rolled in and heavy gunfire ensued. we can't independently confirm what these videos purport to show. they're scenes uploaded to youtube by activists. for months there's been concern the violence will spill into neighboring countries. this week we saw some of that beginning to happen. in tripoli fighting erupted pitting residents against each other. at least seven people were killed in lebanon. every day in syria, more syrian citizens die, more syrian citizens flee to refugee camps, more syrian citizens are wounded, arrested,
a wounded young boy says he wants assad to die. as you watch the following videos, keep in mind the regime of assad says they are observing a ceasefire. the free syrian army, as they call themselves, shoot a rocket propelled grenade. they're outgunned, outmanned. the opposition says at least 23 government soldiers were killed today in rastan and three armored personnel carriers destroyed. elsewhere in homs, a syrian tank rolls down the street. among bombed out buildings and open fire. and at...